originally by: The Guardian
published: 26 April 2012

The police marksman who shot Mark Duggan dead and 30 other officers are refusing to be interviewed by the official investigation into the incident which triggered the summer riots across England.

Duggan was shot dead by a Scotland Yard marksman on 4 August 2011 in Tottenham, north London. The shooting triggered some of the worst riots in modern British history, which began inthe London borough in response to the treatment of the Duggan family.

The investigation into Duggan’s death is being carried out by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). Met officers involved in the incident and the immediate aftermath have given the IPCC written statements.

In January, the IPCC asked to interview the police officers, who have refused. Controversy and confusion surround the circumstances of the shooting.

Read the rest of this entry →

all credits: News Shopper
published: 13 April 2012

THE teenager who plunged 17 storeys to her death in Woolwich has been formally identified as Shanice-Paris Goff. At around 9.30am on April 10 two plain clothes police attended an address in Hastings House, Mulgrave Road to carry out a routine arrest enquiry regarding a recall to prison.

This was a pre-planned arrest enquiry and the officers who called at the address were allowed entry.

Shortly after they entered 18-year-old Shanice-Paris of Beddington Road, St Paul’s Cray, fell from a bedroom window on the 17th floor. Initial information suggests she was in the room alone. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

An inquest will open and adjourn at 9.30am on April 17 at Greenwich Coroner’s Court.

A 19-year-old man was arrested by officers at the scene on suspicion of assisting an offender and was taken to a south London police station.

He has now been bailed to return in early June pending further inquiries.

Read the rest of this entry →